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Assault on Troy

By Jeff Hecht

ANCIENT accounts of the Greek siege of the city of Troy have been confirmed
by an American geologist.

John Kraft of the University of Delaware says he has pinpointed where the
ancient Greeks kept their boats before making their assault on the
city—just as the Greek geographer Strabo described 1250 years after the
Trojan war.

Homer elaborately chronicled the siege of Troy in his epic legend, the
Iliad, as part of the nine-year Trojan war to secure the return of Helen.
In reality, the siege was part of a trade war 3250 years ago between the …